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Abstract

In previous talks (not a prerequisite!), I've described examples of actions of a surface group G on the circle that are totally rigid -- they are essentially isolated points in the representation space Hom(G, Homeo+(S^1))/~. These examples are interesting from many perspectives, ranging from foliation theory to the classification of connected components of representation spaces.

In this talk, I will illustrate three separate approaches to prove rigidity of these actions, including my original proof. Each one uses fundamentally different techniques, but all have a common dynamical flavor:

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